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Originally published in Spanish as <\/span><strong><i>Lo esencial<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to much success in 2019 and translated into English by the award-winning <strong>Valerie Miles<\/strong>, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essential<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the very<strong> first volume<\/strong> in our<strong> new series of reading books<\/strong>, focusing on the <strong>ideas and reflections of renowned creatives<\/strong>. While books in praise of his work abound, including Apartamento\u2019s own <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miguel Mil\u00e1: A Life in Design<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, this unique volume is the first devoted to his design philosophy in his own words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Miguel Mil\u00e1<\/strong><br \/>\nMiguel Mil\u00e1 (1931\u20132024) first began designing his own furniture and lamps out of an organic necessity to create what he could not find at a time before \u2018industrial design\u2019 as we know it today even existed. Among his many honours, Mil\u00e1 was awarded the <strong>National Design Award<\/strong> (in its first edition, jointly with Andr\u00e9 Ricard), and the <strong>Compasso d\u2019Oro International Award<\/strong> from the Italian Industrial Design Association. 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